Spiderman: Across the Spider-verse

 

A few years back, SPIDERMAN: Into the Spider-verse became a heart throb with its world-wide success. The mesmerizing picturization and the unique animation style set the bar quite high for the next movie in the Spider-verse installments yet SPIDERMAN: Across the Spider-verse was a block buster.

The movie picks us right where we left it and we see the events happening exactly a year after the first movie. Gwen Stacy a.k.a Spider woman is in trouble and runs away after her identity is exposed. With the help of a secret spidey society, she reaches Miles Morales aka our Spiderman. Together both of them gather a team of other spidermen from the multi verse to clean up the messes of the universe and to defeat an enemy dangerous than anything they have ever faced before.

Writing anything else about that movie would be considered a spoiler since it is jam packed with action and adventure. The best thing about these spider-verse installments for me is the animation. The scene “leap of faith” from the first movie is enough to make you fall in love with these movies. The vibrant hues and the neon glows make it something hypnotic and the end product is just a feast for the eyes. No wonder each scene took a week to complete. All of them are just mesmerizing.

The concept of multiverse is explored by many super heroes. It is explored in comic books, in DCU and in MCU (Doctor Strange) quite occasionally.  Yet this version of multiverse is simply my favorite. The main theme of this movie is to seize the chance and move forward with what’s in front of you. The story narrates a coming-of-age tale and how we have to confront societal expectations through the lens of the canon events. Tragedies are a recipe for goodness and sometimes no matter how hard you try; you can’t fit it. But the real question is do you actually have to fit in? Is being accepted worth sacrificing what you believe in?

 

Another amusing and entertaining aspect of these movies is how relatable Miles Morales (our protagonist) really is. His reaction to various problems and his utter lack of confidence in the first movie were the main factors behind the success of the story. The art of storytelling has reached its peak in this films as we just automatically click with Miles. His life like portrayal is the reason we were blessed with this master piece:

I actually really enjoyed the portrayal of different spidermen. There is also an Indian spiderman who protects Mambhattan. The two minutes screen time he has might be the best two minutes of the movie. I would gladly pay to watch a 2 hour film of our Indian Spidey just going about his business. His real enemy is traffic and he can get hysterical when people say “chai tea”. Totally relatable for a South Asian.

Over all the movie is simply great. One of the bests ever made. The story, the graphics, the animation. Its all worth your time.